^White hispanic. They used makeup to darken his skin tone in "Space Seed"
Cumberbatch has some big shoes to fill! RM owned that role.
If You Want Blood, You've Got It! (spoiler)
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Cumberbatch has some big shoes to fill! RM owned that role.
Surprised I have to post this again.From Alan Dean Foster's novelization:
“McCoy to bridge. I can’t reach Spock from sickbay. Listen to me. Khan—I need Khan alive. You get that murderous sonuvabitch back on this ship right now.” He took a deep breath. “I think he can save Kirk.”
As he closed the communication, he found Carol gazing at him intently. “What about bringing one of the other members of Khan’s crew out of cryosleep? Even if they don’t revive... properly...it’s not their opinions we need.”
McCoy looked toward the prone form of Kirk lying motionless on the gurney, where he continued to be prepped and monitored by the team of medical technicians.
“Too risky. I think this might work with Khan. I don’t know how much alike he and his crew are, and I don’t have time to find out. If there’s even the slightest unresolved difference between their respective physiologies, then we might be doing nothing but wasting our time and what little, if any, Jim has left. And I have to have Khan alive, because I don’t know what death might do to his body...or the viability of its respective components.” He shook his head in dismay. “It’s Khan—or nothing.”
This is very good; if it were in the film, I would not have needed to post this question.
But it's not. IMO, having this expanded dialogue in the novelization underscores the weakness of the events as they played out in the film. It needed elaboration, explanation, clarification, justification, etc.
There's also no evidence regarding when Khan's blood was modified. I figure that he knows a lot about genetic engineering, and with a 23rd-century technological playground, he might've given himself some genetic modifications that weren't possible back in the 20th century.
I can see it now so clearly in the NuTrek universe. Khan's blood will be mass replicated as this magical elixir which heals all kinds of cellular damage and even bring freshly dead people back from the dead. I can hear Federation doctors saying...
"... he's suffering from a mild case of... death!"
"... he's suffering from a mild case of... death!"
I know, but that still doesn't make him "white" as Iguana claimed. He was born in Mexico to Spanish immigrant parents, which doesn't really qualify him to be considered a "white hispanic".
Why not? He's a Hispanic of European only descent. That's the text book definition of a white Hispanic.
There's no time for that. Not in a film as fast-paced as this one.
Fair enough, I have misunderstood the term then. My apologies to Daniel.
I'm off to update my brain with wiki help!
Born in Mexico to Spanish parents. Fake tan aside, he's just as white as Cumberbach.
Sweet! There's another thread regarding transwarp transporters eliminating the need for starships. Enter magic blood... No need to worry about danger.... Get a transfusion and even the worst damage and death can be rolled back in a few weeks!
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In the 24th century they can bring people back from death (The Neutral Zone) and no one bats an eye.
No worriesFair enough, I have misunderstood the term then. My apologies to Daniel.
I'm off to update my brain with wiki help!
